The New Mithraeum Database

The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.

Triangular relief in yellow sandstone showing a crescent in relief.

Reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates dedicated by Florius Florentius of Saalburg and Ancarinius Severus.

This plaque was found in Mithraeum I at Stockstadt broken into pieces inserted between the blocks of the socle of the cult relief, in the manner of a votive deposit.

The Stockstadt Mercury carries a purse and a small child around which a snake is coiled.

The Mithraeum II in Stockstadt was in fact the first one known built in the vicus. It was destroyed by fire around 210.

The Mithraeum I in Stockstadt contained images of Mithras but also of Mercury, Hercules, Diana and Epona, among others.

Red sandstone altar from Stockstadt, featuring a square cavity in the front that contained a fragment of crystal and a small lamp.

Bronze fibula from Petronell-Carnuntum, depicting a standing lion-headed Aion.

Sandstone petrogenesis from Petronell-Carnuntum (Lower Austria), depicting Mithras emerging from the rock, preserved from the knees upwards.

Sandstone relief depicting the god Aion, standing with wings, a staff and a key, accompanied by a lion and a serpent-entwined vessel.

Sandstone statue of Cautopates holding two downward-pointing torches, from the Ober-Florstadt Mithraeum.

Mithraeum discovered in 1887–1888, located about 85 m north of the castellum at Ober-Florstadt, built on a hillside with a central aisle, benches, and an altar podium.

Fragmentary sandstone relief from Rückingen showing a male figure walking right and holding a kantharos. Traces on the chest may indicate a torques or shoulder-cape.

This lion-headed figure from Nida, present-day Frankfurt-Heddernheim, holds a key and a shovel in his hands.

Terracotta krater from the southern part of the Friedberg Mithraeum, discovered in 1849. The vessel is decorated in relief with serpents, a scorpion and a ladder-like motif.

There have probably been three mithraea discovered at Friedberg.

Sandstone relief of Mithras as bull-slayer, found at Petronell in 1932, with dog, serpent and scorpion, traces of polychromy preserved, now in the Museum Carnuntinum.

Sandstone relief of Mithras killing the bull, broken in two parts and partly restored, with dog, serpent and scorpion preserved; formerly in Vienna, now on loan to the Museum Carnuntinum.

Marble votive altar with inscription to Mithras, featuring coiled, fan-like motifs above the text and associated with the statio Enensis.